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Star Wars, The Force Awakens
1 “ Star Wars, The Force Awakens” is the rough mixture of SCI-FI and human struggle in a different and fictitious galaxy. To the mind of an old and young person, this movie can be a powerful shaping tool, that teaches us to face our fears, believe in ourselves, and that we can become whatever we put our minds to, even things we never thought possible. Also, parents can recognize that this movie is full of robust and moral values that are essential to the younger generation of star wars admirer that can be useful in their lives. Because for the first time this movie franchises has open the main character to a woman. But also a woman that falls in love with an African American man. Something unheard of when this movie first came out in theaters, destroying any racial barriers from an early age in their lives. …show more content…
When an orphan turned to scavenger, "Rey," from the planet Jakku,” a junkyard of crashed Empire Battle Starships “ came in contact with a BB-8 droid that belonged to the best pilot of the resistance, “Poe Dameron.” This droid contains a map that could help to locate “Luke Skywalker”, the last Jedi alive. Skywalker went into exile because he failed to bring back the dying order of the Jedi after one of his apprentices rebelled against him and killed his other apprentices. Rey also meets a rogue Stormtrooper name Finn when he crashed landed on her planet. He's escaped a First order Battlestar ship, and he's been running away from the evil First Order posing as a rebel fighter ever

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